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AUSTRIA WITHDRAWS
DUMBA. AND OFFICIAL
11. S. KEEP SILENT
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Believed that Lansing Has Decided
On Conclusion in Arabic Case, But
Not Known as to Result.
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GERMAN NEWSPAPERS SAY
DUMBA DOING HIS DUTY
Germany Wants to Submit Justifica
tion of Submarine Commander’s
Act to Arbitration
WASHINGTON,, Sept. 11.—A note
from Germany has been delivered to
the American ambassador and it is
believed that it is a supplement to
the communication of the sinking of
the Arabic. It is now believed that it
takes up the question of the subma
rine"s unsuccessful attempt to torpedo
the liner Orduna on which 22 Ameri
cans were aboard.
It is understood that Germany points
out some kind of justification fo
this act.
Question Our Good Will.
BERLIN, Sept. 11.—The German
newspapers question the good will of
the United States in asking for the re
call of Count Dumba, the Austrian am
bassador. They take the view that the
ambassador was merely doing his
duty.
Austria Withdraws Dumba.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The Aus
trian note in reply to President Wilsor
complies with the request that Count
Dumba be withdrawn. The United
States officials have no comment to
make, and are likewise silent re
ling what Count Von Bernstorff.
the German ambassador, in a state
ment that he gave no documents to
James Archibald, the American news
paper man, who carriedthe letters of
Count Dumba.
U. S. Has Made Decision.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. —Secretary
of State Lansing expressed the view
♦’ ♦ the United States is facing the
question of whether it is willing to let
the arbitration court decide if the sub
marine commander was justified in
his act. The court it is understood,
will not be expected to touch on the
general legality of the act.
It is admitted that the United Staes
has reached a conclusion on the Arabic
case ,but it it not disclosed.
FINE CUE IS ENJOYED
DOWN BN THE FftRM
EAST POINT I ’LI B HAD ITS FEAST
TODAY. ’
The East Point 'Cue club, composed
<>r a score of congenial young farr.er;
and a few friends in town, held toda <
its fortnightly feast at the home of
Mr. Frank Barber, on the Ry lander
plantation. The dinner was served in
the heighth of appetizing excellence,
and good cheer reigned supreme, as
always on these pleasant fortnightly
occasions.
BACK TO BOOKS
BOVS ANO GIRLS
TREHHIS WEEK
AMERICUS TO SEND A HOST TO
COLLEGES.
Vacation days have waned, the joy
of “the good old summer time” are
but a blissful memory, and after a
season of unalloyed pleasure the
Americus contingent of college girls
and boys will go back this week to
their respective institutions up the
state. Many will go tomorrow, while
others will follow later in the week.
The following well known young
people are among those who will at
tend college, the list being as nearly
complete as it was possible to make
it:
Miss Edith Hightower will return to
Agnes Scott college, at Decatur, near
Atlanta.
Miss Evelyn Bell will attend school
at Columbia ,S. C.
The Georgia Tech will claim Will
McNeill, George Earl Ansley, Raymond
Rogers, Brooks Williams, C. C. Jones,
Evan Mathis.
Miss Sarah Sheffield will attend the
Sweetbriar college, at Sweetbriar,
Virginia.
Miss Mary Parker will enter Brenau
college, at Gainesville.
Miss Elizabeth Eldridge will attend
the Bishop .Thorpe Manor, at Bethle
hem, Penna.
Miss Flora Denham will go to St.
Mary’s college, at Raleigh, N. C.
Miss Ruth McArthur will go this
week to the G. N. and I. institute at
Milledgeville.
Wesleyan college, at Macon, will
claim Misses Catherine Thomas, Mattie
McMath.
Miss Susie Stallings will attend the
Chicago School of Expression, at Chi
cago.
Emory college, at Oxford, will get
tribute in Will Littlejohn, Dick Wil
liams, Neal Tomas, Eugene Cato.
James Holliday has gone already to
Riverside Academy, at Gainesville. Ga
Arthur Rylander and Charles Hunt
ington Wheatley are in the preparatory
department of the Naval Academy, at
Annapolis.
The University of Georgia will be
attended by Thomas Harrold, Jr., John
Taylor, Jr., Thomas Lane, Jr., HollH
Lanier.
To Mercer university will go Gordon
Howell Robert Lane and probably
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 12, 1915
FRENCH LINE HAS
LOST FOURTH BT
UNOER-SEA BOAT
i REPORTS SAY THAT CROWN
PRINCE HAS LOST 100,000 MEN IN
THE ARGONNE REGION.
PARIS, Sept. 11.—A Havas dispatch
from Algiers says that the steamer,
Villa Demostaganem, of the Compagne
General Transalyannique line, has
been sunk by a submarine.
This is the fourth vessel of this line
which has been sunk since the begin
ning of the recent German submarine'
activity in the Mediteramean and
along the French coast.
100,000 Lost By Germans.
PARIS, Sept. 11. —Reports from the
Argonne region state that the German
Crown Prince has lost one hundred
thousand men in that section. The
recent attempts to cut the French line
have been unsuccessful.
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NEAR AMERICUS;
DAMAGE SLIGHT
STRUCK ON MUCKALEE HILL NEAR
THE CITY.
An automobile driven by Mr. T. W. I
Timmerman, of Plains, and occupied ’
by three or four ladies, and one driven
by Mr. Arthur Rylander, Sr., in which
he and Mrs. Rylander had gone out for
a ride on the Plains road, collided
headon at the top of Muckalee Hili
aobut 9 o’clock Frida ynight.
Both cars were damaged to a greater
or less extent, particularly that of
Mr. Timmermaa’s. Mr. Rylander’s car
a brand new Studebaker, w r as not bad
ly damaged.
Each of the drivers assert that the
fault for the accident was not his, and I
of this they are quite positive. Each.
car was equipped with fine lights. The ’
ladies occupying Mr. Timmerman’.. |
car were bruised to an extent by thel
impact, though fortunately none of
them sustained very serious injury.
The Timmerman car was brought
here for repairs, while the Rylander
car steamed back to the city under its
own power.
BURTON IN THE BASTILE
ABOUT SUIT OF CLOTHES
When Paul Burton, a deep-hued
black brother, showed up at the Carter
Laundry yesterday with a handsome
suit of clothes which he desired to
have cleaned and pressed, Manager
Perry identified the male harness as a
suit stolen from the laundry two
months ago. Explanations were in
order, and Burton explained. He de
clared. it is said, the suit had been pre
sented him, perhaps as a birthday gift,
by a big-hearted drummer stopping a'
the Windsor Hotel, whom he didn’t
know and whose name he could not
recall. The story was doubtless all
right, but the police were a trifle cred
uloug and Burton went to the bastile
others.
A large contingent of young men
here will attend the Third District
Agricultural and Mechanical college
here in Americus, recognized as one
of the best educational institutions 1•
the state.
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Prince Leopold of Bavaria was the
German general who took Warsaw.
His army was the first within the city
LITTLE DOLURS GATHERED HERE ANO THEBE
The enterprising firm of Schneider
Marble Co., conducted by Messrs. C
A. and E. E. Schneider, are to erect
the monument over the .’emains of
Mr O. U. Knocker, who is barely alive,
but whose death has been speculated
upon to occur sometime Tuesday in
time for the interment Tuesday even
ing.
The monument will be one of the
many unique features that will mark
the occasion of Tuesday when Greater-
Americus will join hands and inte»-
all Knockers.
The Schneider Marble Co., willl have
the fifteen employes of their modern
plant in the line of the parade, falling
directly in line with the movement to
make the event a great day in Ameri
cus history.
With its blackness causing a feeling
very creepy we viewed the spacious
coffin in which the remains of Mr. O
U. Knocker will rest. The huge box
was made by the up-to-date variety
works of Mr. Jno. W. Shiver, and the
decorations and trimmings by the
Americus Undertaking Co, under the
direction of Mr. Nat LeMaster.
The coffin is painted coal black and
has every appearance of being a mod
ern crib to house the remains of some
of Goliath’s children.
Mr. O. V| Knocker has a rather large
apartment reserbed for his remains
and the people of Americus are going
to have all his earthly characteristics
and belongings enclosed in the coffin
The red fuses to light the parade
into a flaming procession have arriv
ed, and Americus will fairly sparkle
Tuesday night when the heavens be
come illuminated with the grandeur of
a new-born spirit.
The entire force of workmen from
the plant of Mr. Jno. W. Shiver wil’
b e in the line of parade Tuesday af
ternoon.
The entire cast of characters in the
Kirmess, which will be presented in
Americus next week, will form a par
of the huge parade Tuesday ebening.
At least six banners will be conspic-
taken from the Russians. ’ This pho
tograph shows him within the city the
day his troops entered.
ious among the players.
The Glover Grocery Co., and the
Americus Grocery Co., will be repre
sented in the parade by their entire
force of employees.
The Dollar Dinner has aroused in
terest throughout the state, and as
proof of this the following
business houses will present to the
guests at the dinner the articles men
tioned with their names:
Idle Hour Nursery, of Macon,
through Murray's Pharmacy, cut flow
ers for the decorations.
Coca-Cola Co.—lead pencils and a
box of matches.
Loose-Wilkes Cracker Co.—Sunshine
Hydros Wafers, and Sunshiae Clover
Leaf Wafers.
Arles Plantation—all butter for the
banquet
Stone Cake Co. —neatly wrapped
cake.
Nunnally Co.—Box candy.
Americus Candy & Produce Co., S.
A. Moses—mints for the occasion.
Marietta Hosiery Co.—pair of Rai
dium hose for each guest.
STEIOT H 101 DEGREES
WILL LIKELY CO HIGHER
Americus people who wondered yes
terday just how hot it was will take
comfort in the statement that the
mercury climbed above the hundrel
point. At 3 o’clock Friday afternoo i
it registered 101, according io the re
port of Weather Observer Bryan here,
while it crawled even higher yesterday
at th e most fervid period.
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803 BULES ARE RECEIVED
YESTERDAY IN AMERICUS
Saturday’s receipts of wagon cotton
at Americus warehouses totaled 803
bales, the greater portion of v-hich was
sold and the coin of the realm put in
circulation here.
Officials on the Scene
Give Means For Fight
On the 801 l Weevil
(By W. ELDRED WHALEY.)
THOMASVILLE, Ga., Sept. 11.—The
bool weevil hag made Its appearance in
several cotton fields in this vicinity,
and is now working in certain fields as
far east of here as Dixie, in Brooks
couinty .according to statements mada
today by the officials at the Field
Station of The Board of En
tomology, which is located here.
The presence of the pest in this
section ha s not aroused the people as
much as It was calculated to, mainly
because it came too late to do anj’
material damage to the present crop.
The weevil must work on the bolls
while young and tender, and since
most of the cotton if this section has
matured, no ill effects of the pest have
been felt this year.
It is the opinion of the Entomolo
gists at the Field Station that if the
preesnt cotton crop is harvested early
and stalks an dtrash mobed from the
fields and burned, the weevil will not
do very serious damage next year, be
ing probably confined to places where
it has already appeared rather than
scattered promiscously.
The boll weevil has to go through
. three stages to reproduce itself or
make a “generation,” according to the
Field Station officials. The weevil it
self, is about six or eight times the
size of an ordinary corn weevil—near
ly the size of a common field pea. Its
j body is rather round and is colored a
I dark brown. This winged insect flies
to the form in its early state, gener
ally while in the bloom, and, digging
a hole into the square with its snout,
lays an egg therein and seals over hij
incision. The egg quickly forms a
worm which thrives on the tender fol
iage of the young boll. After the
worm has eaten the life from the
young form, it drops off and acts as
a nursery for bringing this worm to
a full grown winged beetle which is
called “the weevil.” This process C
generation from beetle to worm, fron.
worm to “pupa” or dormant state,
and from “pupa” to beetle again gen
erally equires from 10 to 20 days.
When the form falls from the stalk
containing the “pupa” of the weevV
it is found that in very hot weathe l '
the sand will kill it. Wet, cloudy, o_-
cool weather is calculated to be most
conductive to the activity and gener
ation of this pest.
The boll weevil has reached Georgia
by “wind dispersion” raher than by
“regular dispersion,” the Field offic
ials state. The progress of the pest—
from beyond Dothan, Ala., to Thomas
county—SO miles—is abnormal and [
double the distance traveled by the
insect in any previous year of its
history. This, toegther with the fact
that it is only striking in spots, leads
the Entomologists to believe that the
beetles have been scattered through
out this section by the early September
winds, and have not made their way
here by regular or natural dispersion.
On account of this irregular wind-!
dispersion, the officials believe that
the ravages o fthe pest next year will |
be confined to certain localities rather j
than general. The theory is that the j
few beetles that will begin activity I
next spring will not be able to multiply
sufficient to infect the country as a,
whole before July 15. It is the opin -,
ion at the Station that the farmers
should plant an early variety of cotton
nex year.
On being asked how to best combat
the newly arrived pest, the officials
stated that all cotton stalks and debris
that would serve for winter quarters
for the beetles should.be gathered and
burned. The fewer beetles that sur
; vive the winter, the less serious will
be the ravages next year. Again, since
the weevil reaches the zenith of 4113
activity about the 15th of July, those
who want to be sure of a cotton crop
next year should plnnt an early variety
and fertilize well so as to accelerate
early maturity. Although the beetle
comes out of its winter quarters in the
spring it requires several months—un
til about July 15—for it to multiply in
sufficient quantities to do great dam
age.
This section of South Georgia Is
preeminently adapted to stock raising.
From Thomas and Brooks counties
last fall and winter thousands of hogs
and hundreds of cattle were sold to
the newly established packing house at
Moultrie, Ga., while as many or more
hogs were layed away as bacon in the
farmers’ smokehouses throughout the
country. One of the largest planters
of the county who lives in the vicinity
of Boston, stated today that he had
been looking forward to the coming of
th e boll weevil and had been prepar
ing for it. He stated that he now had
over 200 head of cattle that would be
ready for marked this winter and over
105 fine hogs.
The success that quite a number of
planters ar e having with raising stock
leads many 1 earnest men to think that
the boll weevil may yet prove as a
blessing in disguise for this section of
Georgia.
PALL BEARERS FOR
FML OF MD.O.
0. KNBGKER FIXED
FOURTEEN CITIZENS ARE SELECT
ED TO BURY MR. 0. U. KNOCKER
WITH APPROPRIATE HONORS
The fourteen pallbearers, who will
be gowned in black and made appro
priate for the occasion of interring the
remains of Mr. O. U. Knocker, have
been selected for the event to be held
Tuesday evening. They are:
Olin S. Pace.
W. C. Jeter.
Sam Perry.
Dr Frank
Roney Stallings.
Leroy Murray.
John M. Flournoy.
Walter Phillips.
W. T. Jones.
A. R.. Royal.
John Ed Chapman
Dr. M. H. Wheeler.
Cranston Williams.
GDVERNMRIS
RETURNSATLANTA
SUN. IMPROVED
ATLANTA ,Ga., Sept. IL—Governor
Nat E. Harris will return from hi»
vacation at Hampton, Tennessee, Snu
lay evining slightly improved in
health, although he is not as well as
it was thought his brief vacation would
give him. He is feeling much better
than he was several days ago when he
was confined to his bed.
It is believed that Governor Harris
will announce the date for the extra
ordinary session and the measures he
will include in his proclamation som«
time this week.
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